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Delmarva Customers May Have to Wait Months for One-Time Credit Exelon has promised $40 million for one-time customer credits in Delaware as part of a settlement to get approval for its takeover of Pepco Holdings Inc., but there is no telling when customers will see the credit. Public Service Commission spokesman...

By William Opalka Malloy Three New England states are combining their buying power to purchase clean energy resources and transmission to deliver it. Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Wednesday released a draft request for proposals (RFP), starting a 30-day comment period. The states will issue the final RFP, which...

DNREC Taking Public Comment on Controversial Refinery Water Permit A plan by the Delaware City Refinery to upgrade its cooling water intake and discharge will be the subject of a public comment session on March 24. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control in December said it had reached...

By William Opalka ISO-NE announced Thursday it had chosen a land-based, alternating current transmission project to address reliability concerns in the Boston area that came in about $260 million less than a competing undersea cable proposal. The Greater Boston and Southern New Hampshire Reliability Project, proposed by Eversource (formerly Northeast...

A Massachusetts state legislator whose district includes the soon-to-be shuttered Brayton Point generating plant has filed legislation that would revamp the state’s energy landscape. The bill was proposed by Rep. Patricia Haddad, a Democrat and an ally of Massachusetts Speaker Robert DeLeo. The sweeping bill would require the state’s utilities...

By William Opalka Massachusetts needs additional natural gas pipeline capacity to avoid severe energy shortages in the next few decades, a study commissioned by the state concluded. Even if the capacity is built, winter price spikes caused by severe cold and competition for gas as a heating fuel will remain...